desisto

See also: DeSisto and De Sisto

Italian

Verb

desisto

1. first-person singular present indicative of desistere

Anagrams

• disseto, dissetò, disteso

Latin

Etymology

From dē- +‎ sistō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /deːˈsis.toː/, [d̪eːˈs̠ɪs̠t̪oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /deˈsis.to/, [d̪eˈs̬ist̪o]

Verb

dēsistō (present infinitive dēsistere, perfect active dēstitī, supine dēstitum); third conjugation, no passive

1. to stand apart
2. to cease, desist from (usually coupled with ablative)

   Synonyms: subsistō, sistō, cessō, remittō, dēsinō, conticēscō, quiēscō, trānseō

   Antonyms: coepiō, incohō, incipiō

   • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico VII.26:

     Consilio destiterunt

     Desisted from the plan

Conjugation

   Conjugation of dēsistō (third conjugation, no passive)

indicative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	dēsistō		dēsistis		dēsistit		dēsistimus		dēsistitis		dēsistunt
	imperfect	dēsistēbam		dēsistēbās		dēsistēbat		dēsistēbāmus		dēsistēbātis		dēsistēbant
	future	dēsistam		dēsistēs		dēsistet		dēsistēmus		dēsistētis		dēsistent
	perfect	dēstitī		dēstitistī		dēstitit		dēstitimus		dēstitistis		dēstitērunt, dēstitēre
	pluperfect	dēstiteram		dēstiterās		dēstiterat		dēstiterāmus		dēstiterātis		dēstiterant
	future perfect	dēstiterō		dēstiteris		dēstiterit		dēstiterimus		dēstiteritis		dēstiterint
subjunctive		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	dēsistam		dēsistās		dēsistat		dēsistāmus		dēsistātis		dēsistant
	imperfect	dēsisterem		dēsisterēs		dēsisteret		dēsisterēmus		dēsisterētis		dēsisterent
	perfect	dēstiterim		dēstiterīs		dēstiterit		dēstiterīmus		dēstiterītis		dēstiterint
	pluperfect	dēstitissem		dēstitissēs		dēstitisset		dēstitissēmus		dēstitissētis		dēstitissent
imperative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	—		dēsiste		—		—		dēsistite		—
	future	—		dēsistitō		dēsistitō		—		dēsistitōte		dēsistuntō
non-finite forms		infinitive						participle
		active			passive			active			passive
present		dēsistere			—			dēsistēns			—
future		dēstitūrum esse			—			dēstitūrus			—
perfect		dēstitisse			—			—			—
perfect potential		dēstitūrum fuisse			—			—			—
verbal nouns		gerund								supine
		genitive		dative		accusative		ablative		accusative		ablative
		dēsistendī		dēsistendō		dēsistendum		dēsistendō		dēstitum		dēstitū

Descendants

• Catalan: desistir
• Middle French: desister
  • → English: desist
  • French: désister
• Galician: desistir
• Italian: desistere
• Occitan: desistir
• Portuguese: desistir
• Sicilian: disìstiri
• Spanish: desistir

References

• “desisto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “desisto”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• desisto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to give up one's opinion: (de) sententia desistere
    
  • to give up a project, an intention: consilio desistere
    
  • to give up one's project: incepto or conatu desistere
    

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /deˈzis.tu/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /deˈzis.tu/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /deˈziʃ.tu/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /deˈzis.to/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /dɨˈziʃ.tu/

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -istu, (Portugal, Rio de Janeiro) -iʃtu
• Hyphenation: de‧sis‧to

Verb

desisto

1. first-person singular present indicative of desistir

Spanish

Verb

desisto

1. first-person singular present indicative of desistir